"Also she had the power of silent sympathy. That sounds rather dull, I know, but it's not so dull as it sounds. It just means that a person is able to know that you are unhappy, and to love you extra on that account, without bothering you by telling you all the time how sorry she is for you."

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Source : E. Nesbit (2013). “Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit”, p.1388, Delphi Classics

E. Nesbit

#Sorry Quotes #Love You Quotes #Mean Quotes

“I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.”
“How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart!”
“There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective.”
“Sometimes we want to engage in a war for financial reasons, for strategic reasons, for moral reasons, for all sorts of reasons, and it's important when we're making that decision to remind ourselves of what happens to the people on the front lines when we start this process.”
“Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.”

Source : 1961 England, Half English,'England, Half English'.
“I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.”
“Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.”
“Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.”

Source : Benjamin Rush (1806). “Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical ...”, p.1

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